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PRAYER
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GUESSING GAME!
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ACHIEVEMEN
A THING DONE SUCCESSFULLY, TYPICALLY BY EFFORT,

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COURAGE, OR SKILL.
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DIRECT OR HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON THE COURSE

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OF ACTION OF (SOMEONE OR SOMETHING)
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 DREAM
A CHERISHED ASPIRATION, AMBITION, OR

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IDEAL.
HESARTLE
HEARTLES
DISPLAYING A COMPLETE LACK OF FEELING OR

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CONSIDERATION.
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FEELING OR SHOWING LOVE OR GREAT

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CARE.
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PEOPLE WHO ARE GENEROUS, HELPFUL,

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AND WHO THINK OF OTHER PEOPLE'S
FEELINGS.
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 MOTHE
A WOMAN IN RELATION TO HER CHILD OR

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CHILDREN.
“Air Castle” “MY MOTHER”
Achievement Heartless
Loving
Guide Kind
Mother
Dreams
PERIOD OF REORIENTATION (1898-1910)

A group of young Filipinos Illustrados, emerged.

• product of universities and wealthy families

• decided to use their pens
• some where put in exile
August 13, 1898
• American Soldiers came to supposedly liberate the
Filipinos from the clutches of the Spanish conquerors
- BATTLE OF MANILA
1900
• English became the Medium of Instruction in all
Philippine Schools
1901
• Philippine Normal School was founded to train
Filipino Teachers to take charge of elementary
education
1908
• University of the Philippines was established to train
young Filipinos for tasks in the colonial bureaucracy
NOTABLE WORKS
El Renacimiento:
• founded in Manila by Rafael Palma in 1901
Philippine Free Press:
• established in Manila in 1905 by R. McCullough Dick &
D. Theo Rogers.

POETRY
MY MOTHER AND HIS AIR CASTLES
-WRITTEN BY JUAN F. SALAZAR
 JUAN F. SALAZAR
(AUTHOR)
• Salazar was born in 1889 in San Roque, Cavite
• He left Manila High-School for newspaper work. In
1913, he joined The Philippine Republic, a Filipino
weekly in Hong-Kong.
• returned to the country as a reporter for La
Democracia and El Renacimiento Filipino.
• Among his works are, “My Mother” and “Air
Castles” published in 1909.
 “My Mother”
By: Juan F. Salazar
EL112: SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
MY MOTHER
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR

I wish to write of my mother,

My mother loving and kind,
Who to me, more than any other,
Is the idol of my mind.

She cared for me in my girlhood

With a care that can never be told
And that love in the years of womanhood
Is even more precious than gold
MY MOTHER
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR

I was often wayward and reckless,

But she loved me just the same;
And when I was cruel and heartless
Her heart condoned the same.

No task was too great for her fingers;

Now, they're wrinkled, twisted and bent;
Ah, my memory fondly lingers
Oh her ministries, heaven sent.
MY MOTHER
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR

Her beautiful raven tresses

Are fading to winter's gray,
But the weal of her caresses
Grows greater everyday.

Her face, like an angel's, grow brighter

With the passing of the years,
And her voice makes the dark places lighter
As she wipes away my tears.
MY MOTHER
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR

My mother, my beautiful mother,

Thank God for your life sublime,
You have taught us sisters and brother,
The noblest lesson of time.

That for others our lives should be given

That our actions should always be right;
Your reward is secured up in heaven,
A crown in the mansion's light.
 “Air Castle”
By: Juan F. Salazar
EL112: SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
AIR CASTLE
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR My life’s tomorrow beckons me
From distant mountains high and low;
My future seems a boundless sea,
Where moving passions come and go.

Deep in my heart ambition dwells;

He cheers me up the highland,
And guide me through the hills and dells
Where I pass the busy day.
AIR CASTLE
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR I cannot write with Shakespeare’s pen,
But I can love with Shakespeare’s heart;
I love his skill his craft of men,
His mastery of poet’s art.

I do not care for fame, as he,

Enthroned was like unto a God:
The depths he reached are dark to me.
But I will grope the ways he tried.
AIR CASTLE I wear achievement’s coronet.
BY JUAN F. SALAZAR For best are they who see things done!
And all my cares I soon forget
When I have wrought my work alone.

If I be met by adverse fate,

And all my dreams but in vain;
Then, must I work the harder yet
With high resolve to try again.
1. What is the theme of the
poem “My Mother”?
2. What is the theme of the
poem “Air Castle”?
3. What is the rhyme scheme
that used in the poem “My
Mother” and “Air Castle”?
4. In the poem “Air Castle”
who was the author that was
mentioned by Juan Salazar?
 PREPARED BY

BALELA, ANGELA LAUNGAYAN, JOANAH MARIE ABUG, ASHLEY DIAZ, BEA NICOLLE
V. J. F. P.